How literature and philosophy helped Ding Liren to become World Champion – an interview in “El País”

During the World Championship match against Ian Nepomniachtchi the new World Champion Ding Liren had a number of helpers in Astana. But as Ding revealed in an interview with Leontxo Garcia in the Spanish newspaper “El País”, in critical moments of the match Ding also received help by thoughts and words of Louise Glück, American poet and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize of Literature, and by the “Concept of Resistance” by the French philosopher and author Albert Camus, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize of Literature. | Photo: Stev Bonhage